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Hervé Girod edited comment on NETBEANS-3 at 12/7/17 8:38 PM:
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Maybe it can be of any interest to you (for the future NB versions): I created
a sourceforge project to show a Help system (also with context-sensitive
capabilities) in a Swing app. It also generates the Help articles themselves. I
did this because initially I wanted to create a portable wiki as a web site to
be able to deploy it anywhere I wanted, and later to replace JavaHelp which I
always found not very easy to setup.
The code of the swing library uses a BSD license. The project is here:
[sourceforge.net/projects/docjgenerator|https://sourceforge.net/projects/docjgenerator/].
For the moment there is only one root for the documentation, but I am in the
process of allowing to have more than one. Also normally it should be possible
to add articles which have been edited manually rather than generating them.
was (Author: hervegirod):
Maybe it can be of any interest to you (for the future NB versions): I created
a sourceforge project to show a Help system (also with context-sensitive
capabilities) in a Swing app. It also generates the Help articles themselves. I
did this because initially I wanted to create a portable wiki as a web site to
be able to deploy it anywhere I wanted, and later to replace JavaHelp which I
always found not very easy to setup.
The code of the swing library uses a BSD license. The project is here: [link
sourceforge.net/projects/docjgenerator|https://sourceforge.net/projects/docjgenerator/].
For the moment there is only one root for the documentation, but I am in the
process of allowing to have more than one. Also normally it should be possible
to add articles which have been edited manually rather than generating them.
> javahelp
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> Key: NETBEANS-3
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-3
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Emilian Bold
> Assignee: Jan Lahoda
> Labels: cleanup
>
> javahelp seems to be under GNU GPL 2 with CPE and we do use it:
> http://hg.netbeans.org/releases/file/5fd841261bf9/javahelp/external/jhall-2.0_05-license.txt
> We should either find a drop-in replacement for javahelp or move the help
> online and open a system browser for each help button click.
> This will break the stable help API used by plugins and Platform apps so we
> must provide some migration path for those too.
> An idea would be to allow Platform apps to include javahelp themselves
> instead of relying on it being present in the Platform.
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